Gender and the beauty contest game

Qin, Botao (2019): Gender and the beauty contest game.

Abstract

This paper uses a beauty contest game to test the gender differences in strategic reasoning. Using both a non-monetary incentive treatment and a monetary incentives treatment in China, I find there are differences in strategic reasoning.However, the differences disappear with the increase of stakes.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Gender; Beauty Contest Game
• Subjects: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C7 - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory > C72 - Noncooperative Games; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C9 - Design of Experiments > C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J1 - Demographic Economics > J16 - Economics of Gender ; Non-labor Discrimination

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